Susan Morse
Urban Institute analysis shows there may be an expansion of health insurance options in 2021, as national insurers are reportedly reentering market.
CMS also announced changes to other alternative payment models to adjust for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The insurers claim that CVS submitted claims for payment at artificially inflated prices and concealed the true cash price of the drugs.
Facilities with a one-star quality rating are more likely to have large numbers of COVID-19 cases than facilities with a five-star rating, CMS says.
Customers who were eligible to pick a Medicare Advantage plan earlier this year, but could not because of the pandemic, are entitled to a special enrollment period.
Insurers need to project the future cost of delayed elective procedures and total expenses of COVID-19 care.
Insurers will be issuing a total of about $2.7 billion in refunds, estimates the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Patients want access to everything, according to focus groups interviewed by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Some of the telehealth provisions extended on a temporary basis will be made permanent, CMS Administrator Seema Verma says.
Both the airline and the hospital system need to develop trust to be able to say, "It's safe to come back."